This book was a bit different than most of Elizabeth Lowell's writings. more intense and I don't believe she has ever had one of her St Kilda writings, at least that I have read, involve so many antagonists where you couldn't really tell good from bad until the last few pages. I was somewhat disa...
Two former operatives, one SpecOps, the other CIA, must pretend to be lovers while piloting a yatch as the center of an international intrigue that threatens an American city.The two are so sympatico that its almost impossible to believe that they've just meet. They fact that they're working for ...
This book takes me back to the older Elizabeth Lowell books (like Outlaw and such) but I am not sure if it is a reissue of one of those. It takes place in the rural West, as those books do, and has everything you'd expect of her books - action, wide open ranches, alpha heroes and plucky heroines...
You write such wonderful books. You take us on a journey. There are ups & downs. Holden meeting Kate. O'Donnelly's searching for buried treasure. Kate thinks she is weak because she can't get over the death of her parents. She is lured back to the family business & is forced to face her demons. H...
This novel was a lot more romance and a lot less mystery than what I was expecting but overall was an enjoyable read. The "who done it" mystery sort of unfolded more so than the characters actually investigating and figuring it out. As for the romance part I did enjoy the relationship the charact...
What a suck-all read and an overall waste of time. After the first 100 pages it felt like the story was being rehashed endlessly because the author didn’t know what else to write. I had to virtually skim read my way to the end to get through it. The story is about Cat, a successful photographe...
As I had mentioned in an earlier post, once I actually thought about it, it was quite noticeable that one of the main conflicts didn’t come around to be presented until about 60% into the book--the reason why Lacey has suddenly been targeted for murder as well as the significance of her grandfath...
He might help her...if the price is right.Surrounded by potential enemies, Hannah McGarry faces the mystery of her husband's suspicious death, the prospect of bankruptcy...and the disappearance of the fabulous Black Trinity necklace that was to be her financial security. Desperate, she calls Arch...
***2.5 stars (rounded to 3, because horses play an important part)*** I don't know how to characterise this romance, and that because the writing is rather uneven. At times it is very enjoyable, full of energy and interesting themes and the next moment it loses momentum and starts dragging. The ...
5 stars! (Even after all these years!)I read this book back in January 1990 when it was first released under the Silhouette Desire line. It was a favorite of mine the instant I read it, and remarkably, after just re-reading it 25 years later, it's STILL is a favorite of mine!Luke MacKenzine, the...
I don't really know what to say, so maybe it's time for a story. Once upon a time I was sitting in a café where it was not frowned upon to buy a skim-soy weak decaf latte. I was with an old friend and her latest boyfriend who was wearing black jeans, black doc-martins (with purple laces) and a bl...
The Search For Her Sister Could Cost A Woman Her Life Christy McKenna, the smartest fashion writer in New York, thought she'd escaped her childhood in the impoverished rural West. Then came a call for help from the one person she could not refuse—her sister, the internationally celebrated model ...
I fell in love with the Donovan series many years ago and have just replaced my original almost falling-apart paperbacks with hardcover versions from some Amazon resources. It's a worthwhile endeavor, IMHO, because this series is outstanding!! There are four books (Amber Beach, Jade Island, Pear...
Chain Lightning is one of Ms. Lowell's early contemporary romances. For the most, I enjoyed the story, even if it was a bit cheesy. Damon and Mandy spend a month on a remote island on the Great Barrier Reef. They are thrown together by Damon's aunt. The big problem is that Mandy is afraid of t...
Diana Saxton has come to Colorado's mesa country to explore the Anasazi cliffs. And she doesn't want -- or need -- the help of Tennessee Blackthorn, a man as tough and commanding as the land itself. But the sexy ranch hand seems determined to unlock the secrets of the mesa -- and the passion in D...
"The troubling message from Serena Charters's late grandmother appears in a package containing four pages of a centuries-old illuminated manuscript -- a strange inheritance that hides many secrets...and has already cost many lives. Seeking answers, Serena turns to Erik North of Rarities Unlimited...
Classic 1990s Category RomanceTHE STORY: Mariah MacKenzie has come back to the Rocking M ranch looking for the brother from whom she was separated from 15 years ago. After years of not belonging, Mariah is looking for a home. She ends up meeting Cash McQueen, her brother's best friend. The at...
The fourth book of Elizabeth Lowell's Donovans series, Midnight in Ruby Bayou, is for my money the best of the lot. It's got the most complex of any of the plots in the series up to this point, and since it's a bit longer than the previous ones as well, Lowell has more time to develop the various...
Alana Reeves has amnesia covering 6 days spent on Broken Mountain were her husband is killed in an accident. A Love from her past Rafe Winters comes back into her life and takes her back to Broken Mountain. An amazing written story line and great characters and under currents of nightmare, romanc...
I’ve read more romance novels in the past couple years than I had since middle school (thank you, Smart Bitches, Trashy Books). Some of them have become favorites, but a large number of them, even though well-written, don’t do anything for me. This book is helping me articulate why.There are a lo...
Caves fascinate me, and I've always wished I had both the courage and the opportunity to explore an undeveloped cave. I read this book after seeing an astonishingly beautiful National Geographic feature on the still largely unmapped cave system that stretches for countless miles beneath New Mexic...
I am a huge fan of Elizabeth Lowell. So far I have enjoyed most of her books. I think Lover in the Rough might be the exception. You can definitely tell that this is an early work. If I had to chose a word to describe it, that word would be cheesy. I couldn't help but giggle through this ent...
Winter Fire (directed by Michael Page)The Civil War and the Culpeppers have taught Case Maxwell three things: how to be a patient, deadly fighter; to love nothing that can die; and that justice is blind. He has sworn vengeance on the Culpeppers, who destroyed all that he held dear. When a fight w...
Extended from Summer Thunder HOLLY She is a fragile innocent haunted by memories of her past and by dreams of the man who once shared her secrets...the only man she can ever truly love. SHANNON One of the world's great beauties, her face and figure grace the fashion pages of the most elegant ma...
Wild and restless, Kyle Donovan has freed himself from the constraints of his family's high-powered gem-trading empire to rove the world as a treasure hunter. Now the president of Donovan International has given Kyle an assignment with explosive ramifications. A casehe must take.When one of China...
The Wrong Hostage3.5 StarsGrace Silva is a federal judge backed into a corner when her teenage son is taken hostage by Mexican drug traffickers. With time running out, Grace turns to the only man she has ever loved and the one who believes she betrayed him 16 years ago: Joe Faroe, an operative wi...
Dear Reader, Sometimes, if you're very lucky, you can go home again. An earlier version of this book was titled The Diamond Tiger and came out in 1993 under the name Ann Maxwell. When my present publisher offered me the opportunity of going back to the novel under the name Elizabeth Lowell, I ad...
Former U.S. Senator Quintrell is dead.His son, New Mexico's governor, is preparing hisrun for the highest political office in the land.And dark family secrets are about to explode with the devastating force of a Southwestern earthquake. An eccentric Quintrell aunt has invited genealogist Carolina...
In the last of my Elizabeth Lowell Summer 2009 Marathon, I'm jumping out of the historicals and into a contemporary, Remember Summer. I was hoping that I'd get closer in general flavor to the sorts of suspense novels Lowell's been writing for much of her recent career, and at least in some ways, ...
In the Brisk Chill of Autumn, Ravaged Hearts Will Be RebornReturning to her Wyoming ranch at the Civil War's end, Elyssa Sutton finds it picked bare by scavengers and coveted by determined men. Yet the proud young woman vows never again to abandon her Ruby Mountain home, though it means enlistin...
Amber is known as the "Forbidden". Amber is one of the 'Learned", and there is a prophecy that if Amber ever gives the three parts of her self; Body, Heart and soul, then death will be in her future. Amber has always been well protected, and if she ever touches another, it gives her pain, as she ...
Book #9 of 2013Whenever I drive to Mansfield, we pass this place called Salamanca in NY. It is usually late at night and maybe it is the perfect spot on the highway because we often stop to fill up the gas tank or to grab a road snack. It also happens to have a casino, always lit up just off the ...
“Farnsworth?” Holden asked. Grandpa signaled yes. Obviously his outburst had taken what extra energy he had. He turned away slowly, the pressure of the water giving everything a sort of regal leisure as he finned back to the cave. “You start up,” Kate said. “I’ll help Grandpa with whatever is lef...
The solar had been transformed into a makeshift infirmary, for the great hall was being readied for feasting. “Ouch!” the Scots Hammer yelped, jerking back from Meg’s hands. “That hurts!” Duncan had insisted on being last to be treated, as his wounds were insignificant. “Do be still,” Meg retorte...
He could deal with the passionate needs of his body. But the passionate hunger of his mind for Hope was new to him, as deeply disturbing to him as the upwelling of molten basalt was to the thick crust of the earth. He knew that their shared silence, like the shared vision before it, held an intim...
In the moonlight her eyes were wide, dark, as unreadable as the night itself. When Elyssa realized that Hunter was near, she quickly turned her back. Her normally deft fingers fumbled with the tiny buttons on her bodice as she tried to fasten it up once more. “What are you doing out here?” Elyssa...
Prettyface was by her side, looking almost as healthy as before the fight. Above Shannon the wild Colorado sky seethed with clouds in every color from pearl to pewter to a strangely radiant midnight. A freshening wind swept over peaks and forests alike, making narrow stone ravines sing eerily and...
Tawny weeds and grasses bent low to the ground beneath the wind, their heads heavy with the weight of next year’s life. Oak, beech, and rowan trees bowed leaf-stripped branches as an invisible river of air rushed by. Wind sent ragged white cloud banners flying from the distant peaks. The sky betw...
"One date and bang! Home with the lady you go, never to leave until dawn. And here she wouldn't even play footsie with me.""Where's Chen Yi?" asked Catlin.O'Donnel opened his mouth to pursue the subject of fast work, took a look at Catlin's narrowed eyes and decided that the other man wasn't goin...
A few months of on-again, off-again shared coffee and conversation didn’t equal anything that should lift her pulse.The reporter was talking again, his tone impatient.“I’m sorry,” she said to the reporter, “what was the question?”“The Santa Muerte shrines and the offerings of food and bullets and...
The air felt sleek and cool on Eve’s damp skin… 10 THE air felt sleek and cool on Eve’s damp skin as she finished her bath. She shivered, but not from chill. Like the half-wild, wary mustangs, Eve sensed she was no longer alone. She shook out her flour-sack dress and hurriedly pulled it on over h...
Jay said to Sara the following morning. “The weather is mostly sunny, we have another whole building to search, and more receptionists to terrorize. The day is young.” He yawned. “A lot younger than I am. Not that I’m complaining.” “Your fault. You decided that I was so fragile that you had to ta...
He couldn’t see her face, but the tension in her body told him how tightly strung she was. His voice whispered through the darkness like another shade of night. “Is the gold here now?” “No. But . . .” Risa rubbed the gooseflesh on her arms. “Can’t you feel it? It was here. And something still is....
The speed didn’t have anything to do with the guard’s alertness. The cart simply didn’t go much faster. A cigarette flared briefly, giving the guard’s face a ruddy glow against the sodium vapor lights that flooded the lot with an odd yellow color. Now there’s a real sentry, Kirby thought in disgu...
“For God’s sake,” Wolfe muttered. The weight of her against his usual morning arousal was altogether too hot. When small hands slid beneath his coat to reach the warmth of his body, his heartbeat speeded. Without waking, she tucked her face against his neck and sighed. Wolfe closed his eyes, but ...
Conner asked. His voice sounded unusually loud in the cabin. Probably because supper had been unusually silent. In fact, everything had been real quiet since Case and Sarah had ridden in a few hours ago. Both of them were strained and not at all talkative. Conner assumed it had something to do wi...
“You don’t think—” Chase began, shocked. “No,” Dane cut in impatiently, “I don’t. I know both of you too well. I know Nicole in the same way. Yes, I care for Nicole a great deal, just as you care for Jan. Nicole is a very appealing woman, and not just physically. I’d have to be blind and a liar t...